Parrowland Quotes & Sayings

Why do tax havens exist? Because rich countries allow them to. If the U.S. came down on tax havens in the same way they come down on countries that trade with Iran and Cuba, we'd have no tax havens in the world. — Ha-Joon Chang

Don't die with the music still in you. — Wayne W. Dyer

Paradox as it may seem, we likewise find life meaningful only when we have seen that it is without purpose, and know the "mystery of the universe" only when we are convinced that we know nothing about it at all. — Alan W. Watts

I started out on guitar when I was nine years old, and I started playing bars and stuff when I was thirteen, and I've been playing ever since. — DJ Ashba

You've just got to get in the starting gate and throw down whatever you've got. — Ted Ligety

Prayer is powerful beyond limits when we turn to the Immaculata who is queen even of God's heart. — Maximilian Kolbe

We mingle in society not so much to meet others as to escape ourselves. — Josh Billings

Because only slow food can teach us the things that really matter - care, beauty, concentration, discernment, sensuality, all the best that humans are capable of, but only if we take the time to think about what we're eating. — Alice Waters

He was a committed ladies' man and obtained a great deal of sustenance from the seemingly inexhaustible supply of women, but he guarded himself vigilantly against addiction, fearful of becoming fodder for that feminine allure which is so paradoxically generous to those who take from it and so destructively cruel to those who give. — Lyudmila Ulitskaya

The hoopla with all the award season is kind of mind-boggling. It kind of puts you on your heels. — Jeff Bridges

Authors go on writing books, and so we go on reading them. It is a sad state of affairs. — Elizabeth Aston

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity. — Nelson Algren

I could tell your father stories about the men in the Prince's Court. — Emily Whitaker